Meditations on the Human Condition in an Imperial Age
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Global politics has come to be viewed as the lucky Russian roulette of terrorism, empire building, moral embargoes and top-speed entrepreneurial hijacking of natural resources, while wireless networks and fast-food chains continue to booby-trap the next generations of G-rated audiences and clientele. For the time being there are plenty of “talk-shows” and “air-shows” to remind us that the colloquial atmosphere of empire once reserved to the founding/colonizing fathers, to a small circle of friends or an endeared “other” whose arrival had been postponed or ignored, is no more than a goose chase in the street jargon and, by analogy, a mercantile sublimation in mass-media and corporate lingoes. Its method of analysis is normally “googled” or “yahooed” while the onlooker hopes for or awaits a randomly providential answer. As it happens, the word “empire” triggers 192,000,000 results in about 0,18 seconds. “Empire Theatre”, “Wikipedia Empire”, “Empire skateboards”, “La Boutique Empire en ligne”, “Empire Club”, “Empire Life”, “News for Empire”, “Books for Empire”, “Empire Auction”, “Empire Grill”, ballroom, lounge, blog, music, urban, avenue, industry, remix, mining, crockery, and so forth. The simple typing of the word “empire” features an eclectic collection of data and no clue as to what the term actually means. Amidst a multiplicity of good-to-know nouns, the most convenient public informational source, Wikipedia, promotes a unique sample of conceptual scrapping.
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The concept of empire contains features that are both irreducibly spectral and terrifyingly real. With much of both aspects prevailing at subliminal levels, it is nearly impossible for the casual observer to think through the maze of contradictions and constitutive forces inherent in the imperial system. In her latest work of nonfiction, Meditations on the Human Condition in an Imperial Age, author and political philosopher Irina V. Boca uses her expertise and research to help readers analyze the presence of empire as an indelible contemporary political force. This intricate work unravels the Gordian knot of imperial politics and allows the reader to consider overlapping concepts from multiple perspectives, finally making it possible for the general audience to get all the facts.
From post-Hegelian philosophy to political science and popular culture, the author has identified the intricately woven forces of imperial politics and invites readers to reconsider any easy location of power and any clear-cut path to resistance or liberation.
About the Author
Irina V. Boca is a civil engineer with a doctorate in political science. She specializes in twentieth-century political philosophy of North America and Europe. She is an established author of both fiction and nonfiction works published in English and Romanian, her native language.